Visit this excellent video interview with David Dietrich, creator of EMC’s data science curriculum. He talks about his experience helping people transition to becoming data scientists.
David lays out a list of 5 traits of a data scientist.
- Quantitative
- Technical
- Skeptical
- Communication and Collaboration
- Creative and Curiosity
For a diagram of these 5 traits, see this brief writeup about the profile of a data scientist. Also, see the slides of his latest talk at EMC World 2012.
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